New Boeing 737 MAX - The Greenest Airbus - http://clapway.com/2015/12/11/new-boeing-737-max-the-greenest-airbus/

Boeing has officially introduced their newest beast. The company announced that they have created their newest version of their 737 MAX. The Boeing 737 MAX has been said by the company to be way more fuel efficient and powerful than previous.

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THE VP OF BOEING TALKS ABOUT THEIR BOEING 737 MAX

Boeing released a press release speaking about their new airplane. The vice president of the company, Keith Leverkuhn, stated that this is the first airplane in the next century of aircrafts for them and that it will take the performance level to new heights. Leverkuhn mentions how this new 737 Max will use 20 percent less fuel than previously. Over an extended period of time, that will save a lot of money on fuel. The new 737 Max will also have winglets designed with their Boeing-designed Advanced Technology, as well as LEAP-1B technology engines. They say this will make it the most reliable and efficient plane on the market.

THE NEW BOEING 737 MAX TO BE TESTED

The company says that this new aircraft can be expected to be tested next year. After they make sure that their plane is ready to go, they say that they already have a customer set up. They said that Southwest Airlines is expected to get the first delivery from the aircraft sometime in 2017. However, this is considering that all goes right in the testing phase. If some issues happen during testing, then that date may be pushed back.

THE BOEING 737 MAX DID GO ACCORDING TO PLAN

Even though testing may reveal problems, Leverkuhn did state in their release that the company was able to finish this project on time. He said that all went according to plan and the team was able to work at it together very well. All the company has to do now is test their 737 MAX, make sure it is good to go, and then they will be able to show the world their amazing new beast!

New Boeing 737 MAX - The Greenest Airbus

Climate Change Causes Airlines to Lose Millions of Dollars and Flight Hours - http://clapway.com/2015/07/15/climate-change-causes-airlines-to-lose-millions-of-dollars-and-flight-hours432/

With the ebb of extreme weather like El Nino, intensely hot summers and increasingly frigid winters, it’s no surprise that climate change is making everyone’s struggle against the elements an expensive one. But scientists say wind patterns altered by climate change is causing longer flight times, extra fuel consumption, and consequently an greater rate of CO2 emissions.

HOW THIS HAPPENED

When jets burn fuel, they release carbon dioxide, causing the atmosphere to warm enough to generate stronger headwinds. Of course, this means tail winds also increase, but the net effect, related to round trips are increasing. Naturally, fuel is also increasing in price.

This was confirmed by a team of US scientists, who say the cumulative effect of longer flight times reputed to be caused by climate variation must have added millions of dollars to airline company’s expenses, and possibly one billion gallons of extra fuel.

The associate scientist in geology and geo physics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, named Kristopher Karnauskas, said that they had analyzed flight times and daily wind speeds at cruising altitudes for four different airlines on three separate routes for the past 20 years.

The chosen flight paths exist between Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Kristopher Karnauskas and his team found that eastbound flights were generally faster than westbound flights for all operating airlines, the latter of which had an added cost of about one minute per round trip.

small additional costs add up

Specifically, this means that eastbound flights may be 10 minutes shorter, westbound ones 11 longer. But couldn’t all of this be better explained by naturally occurring cycles created by ocean temperatures?

El Niño, for example, is an atmospheric pocket of heat that appears periodically in the pacific. It is known to bring fires and droughts to the Indonesian rainforests, it floods California, and it upsets fisheries near Peru.

Throughout the twenty years of this study, though, the four airlines under consideration made 250,000 flights using the three routes mentioned above. Each flight’s tiny additional cost was added to reveal an aggregate loss that was quite substantial.

Rise in wind speeds leads to much longer round trips

Accounting for a predicted rise in wind speed, the team of scientists predict that we could have an additional 5.5 hours per round trip, per carrier on each similar route. For our wallets, this is equivalent to an extra 480,000 gallons of jet fuel used, and 4.6 kg of CO2 emitted, every year. This is certainly a significant amount that can contribute to climate change.

Dr. Karnauskas elucidates: “The wind really fluctuates by about 40 mph, so multiply those couple of minutes by each flight per day, by each carrier, by each route, and that residual adds up quickly…[w]e’re talking millions of dollars in fuel costs.”

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Climate Change Causes Airlines to Lose Millions of Dollars and Flight Hours